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>UrJTAG is a software package which enables working with JTAG-aware (IEEE
1149.1) hardware devices (parts) and boards through a JTAG adapter.</P
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>This package has an open and modular architecture with the ability to write
miscellaneous extensions (like board testers, flash memory programmers, and so
on).</P
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>UrJTAG is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for UrJTAG.  Please read
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>Feedback and contributions are welcome.</P
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>This documentation is far from being complete. You're encouraged to amend and
supplement it and submit your changes in the Bugs or Enhancements tracker
at the UrJTAG website.</P
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>The most current version of this documentation and UrJTAG source code
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>I (Kolja) favour short names, so I thought about adding only a few
letters to "JTAG". The prefix "Ur" in German means "ancestral", an "Ur-Vater"
is a forefather. UrJTAG shall become the forefather, the prototype for many
other JTAG tools. By mere chance the "Ur" is also another name for an aurochs,
an animal similar to the GNU&#8230;</P
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>A list of contributors is maintained in the file THANKS in the source
distribution. Special thanks go to Marcel Telka, who actually "invented" the
JTAG tools and wrote most of this basis of UrJTAG, and Arnim Laeuger for his
continuous support and development of SVF and BSDL subsystem and FT2232
drivers.</P
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>The JTAG Tools originally were developed by Marcel Telka as part of
the openwince project. Still a large portion of the source code is his work.
However, the last release of the JTAG tools was version 0.5.1 in 2003. After a
few years the development completely stalled. Every few months or so on the
project's mailing list someone asked about continuing, but a critical mass
wasn't reached before late 2007. A fork of the JTAG tools was created under the
wings of the UrJTAG project at Sourceforge.</P
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